JULIE MOTZ
Radical Healer
Radical Healer
Workshops
SEPTEMBER 1- 5, 2010
Healing is an ability that all humans share - not a special talent or gift. Anyone with enough curiosity and persistence can heal themselves and others. Healthy energy continually flows through our bodies in waves we know as "emotions." Becoming aware of when we are in pure emotion and when we are locked in a defense or thrown into shock is the first step towards releasing the forces we need to keep ourselves moving forward expansively and creatively.
The healer within is our vital emotional life. That is what nourishes cells, tissue and organs, allows them to communicate and collaborate instead of compete with each other. Emotions become blocked, hidden and rerouted through physical and psychological trauma. When their energy does not flow smoothly disease, injury and fatigue follow.
In this workshop you will learn how to track the movement of emotional energy through your body and release the places it has been blocked. You'll explore the relationship between your emotional defenses and your feelings of being out of balance and out of sorts. You'll discover where your particular pattern of emotional shock began and how to transform the energy of shock into the energy of health. You'll regain the vitality you were conceived with and explore ways of awakening it in others.
WHERE: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, British Columbia
WHEN: September 1-5, 2010
TO REGISTER AND FOR INFORMATION ABOUT COSTS: http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?Group_ID=4481
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CONTENT AND TEACHING STYLE: email jamtoday@juliemotz.com or call 415 256-2528
JULIE MOTZ (http://juliemotz.com) is an internationally known healer and author who pioneered the practice of doing energy healing in the operating room. She has lectured at Columbia, Stanford and Dartmouth medical schools and worked side by side with surgeons in hospitals all across the country. Her innovative work with depression, overeating, trauma and addiction has helped hundreds of people. Her book, Hands of Life, has been published in five languages.
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LOVING THE BODY - RESURRECTING THE SOUL
HEALING SEXUAL WOUNDS
HEALING SEXUAL WOUNDS
Do you love your body? Or do you judge it? Is it at times a source of confusion, pain, humiliation, guilt, embarrassment or shame? Do you accept some parts of it but reject others? Do you exercise for the sheer pleasure of moving your body through space or only to whip it into shape?
Do you enjoy being sexual? Or is it more of a performance than an experience? Do you have trouble staying fulling present with your partner when you're making love? Is sexuality a fully integrated aspect of yourself or is it held separate and apart, only taken out in secret, for special occasions or perhaps not at all?
Being physical and being sexual are inextricably intertwined. Oxytocin, the chemical that makes orgasm feel so good, is essential to being born and is present in our mother's milk. A wound to sexuality is a wound to the body as well as to the psyche. Much of the stiffness or pain people feel in their bodies and virtually all of their rejection of one or more aspects of their physical selves comes from sexual wounding that occurred too early and was too threatening to be remembered in any other way.
The feeling of disliking our bodies is a mask for our hidden, inaccessible anger about what was done to them: the thighs that were pried apart, the buttocks that were penetrated, the breasts that were fondled, the stomach that was pulled tight against another body, the throat that had to swallow what it didn't want to, the arms that were grabbed to hold us still, the hands that were put where we didn't want them to be, the face whose mouth was forcibly invaded, the eyes that saw far too much, the nose that had to smell odors and body parts it didn't want to be near.
When we "hate" our bodies or some part of them we are really trying to reject the intrusion of the hands, lips and genitals of someone who thrust their sexuality upon us when we were too young and too dependent on them to resist. This body despair which puts millions of dollars into the pockets of plastic surgeons and billions into the coffers of the diet industry is the other side of the rage we had to bury and forget about almost as soon as it came up in us in order to survive as children.
Similarly our sense of separation from our own sexuality - whether experienced as a sexual addiction that seems to "possess" us or dissociation from ourselves when sexual feelings or sexual situations arise - hides the fact of how dangerous sexuality became to us when our boundaries as children were invaded by unconscious older children or irresponsible adults.
In this workshop you'll have the chance to examine the feelings your body is holding about what happened to it when you were young and vulnerable. You'll look at your sexuality and your distance from it in the light of being overwhelmed by another person's sexual demands when there was no way to survive if you resisted. You'll learn how to reclaim both and live in a vital, sensually vibrant world where sight, sound, taste, smell and touch are open portals to excitement and delight. You'll recapture the hope of being the sexually whole person in a responsive, resilient body that you have longed to be.
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